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Solution about consistent behavior of the EXIT key.

Homescreen adaptation for Germany. (Kabel/Antennen Fernsehen)

Hebrew text disabled in Now en Next + 8 days EPG. (Mainly solved for Israel market)

Improvement stability behavior when starting up from HDMI source.

Live TXT subtitles from broadcast no longer shown during playback of a recording without

BBC iPlayer, video and radio program is functioning again.

Solution about sometimes no connection to Philips Smart TV portal during virgin installation.

Stefano here,
I have the 55PFL8008, with the .18 FW on it now.
From what i can see from here, is that the "Lightsensor" not work.
When activated, normaly when its dark in the room, you must see that the screen become darker in steps.
That dont work now, screen, dont become darker.

I have the 46PFL8008 (before I had the 46PFL8606)
I installed the latest firmware 64.18

Functions that don't work as they should:

- 'hdmi-blacklevel detection' is not available in the menu picture when an HDMI source is on. This should be available accordingly to the manual of the tv + this was also available in the 46PFL8606 when an HDMI source was on.

- 'clear lcd' don't make any improvement setting it ON or OFF when perfect natural motion is OFF, you have to set perfect natural motion to at least MINIMUM for the clear lcd to work. This is not the way it should work, in the 46PFL8606 there is improvement when setting clear lcd from OFF to ON when perfect natural motion is OFF.

I have a problem with the ambilight. When I'm using a Philips BluRay Player as a HDMI-source for my 46PFL8008S/12 the ambilight flashes in the upper right corner of the TV. It occurs in about 2-3 times per minute and it does not depend on the content the Player is sending to the TV. Furthermore it doesn't depend on the source, the BluRay Player receives the content from (USB, BluRayDisc, ...). I've tested it already with two devices (BDP7600 and HTS9150).

Since an other user has already reported the same problem in Toengel's forum, I suppose that it's a (firmware-) problem of all 8008 series.

I own a 46PFL8008 and I have the following problems which are in my opinion related to software:

- While playing an mkv file from USB one of the top right ambilight leds is blinking en mostly green, sometimes red color. This occurs like 3 times a minute. Looks like the same problem 'Fitness-boy' is talking about.
- Light sensor does not seem to work. Nothing happens in turning it on/off. While in total dark the tv still shows a very bright image.

I hope Philips will respond to all these issues as these really do affect the way of experiencing your TV.

Thanks!

edit: 04-06-13, I did some tests with more mkv's, seems that the led blinking does only occur with some of my mkv's (and maybe other files). I still don't know what's causing the problem, could be sound codec, some other codec in the files?

edit: 24-06-13, it seems that the problem does occur with all played mkvs, sorry for earlier edit (04-06)

Last edited by markvanoirschot; 06-24-2013 at 12:38 AM.
Reason: more info

- Dynamic Backlight + light sensor: light sensor does not work when Dynamic Backlight is set to "best picture" (or its effect is barely visible). Sensor works fine with "Standard" or "Off" backlight modes (not tested in "Eco" mode).

- Top right Ambilight LED is blinking in green or red. It happened only once with one movie: watching third StarWars blu-ray (PS3 through HDMI).

Light sensor to be used to determine best dimming percentage (on dark pictures only) adapted to room lighting condition (in addition to picture analysis, as currently done). Ie, in bright room, dimming percentage will be lower than in dark room (where the black level is more sensitive).

This would be different from / in addition to the current light sensor function which globally adapts TV backlight to room lighting condition (for dark and bright pictures).

I've just purchased 46PFL8008S TV with FW v000.064.018.000 and have an issue with DVB-C tuner. When I add stations to favorites, they are getting doubled, tripled,.... after some time, which makes the Favorites list unusable. I'm not able to sort general list which makes it even more difficult to switch between stations.

Thanks,
Michal

Update: New channels are appearing in the NEW tab automatically even I did disable automatic channels update in Menu. Everytime new channels appear, my favorites get broken (doubled entries described before).

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation about light sensor use, it corresponds to our observations and even already to some of my above suggestions

Then another suggestion for improvement: in the "best picture" mode, it would be great to use the light sensor in the "bright scenes" as well, to adapt global picture setting to room lighting condition.

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